Wikimedia Release Engineering Team

Release Engineering

Enable confident code deployment with feedback loops to inform optimal delivery to production.

Group:	Technology
Team members:	Brennen Bearnes, Dan Duvall, Jeena Huneidi, Mukunda Modell, Antoine Musso, Ahmon Dancy
Management:	Tyler Cipriani

Release Engineering's mission is to enable confident code deployment with feedback loops to inform optimal delivery to production.

Values

Team Values
🧑‍💻 Developer focus	🎖️Integrity	🌻 Freedom & open source	🙌 Quality	👥 Teamwork & Collaboration
Prioritize code review Make excellent documentation Be responsive in #wikimedia-releng ^connect	Communicate directly and honestly with teammates Disagree without animosity Hold each other accountable	Work in the open Be a good upstream FOSS in the decision process, always Advocate for supporting open projects (cough💰cough)	Make time to add polish and features Take time to write tests and do code review Take time make documentation easy to read	Listen like you want to be heard Help each other Be mindful of timezones Be mindful of idioms Review each other's code

Things We Do (that we can help you with):

What	Who
Continuous Integration pre/post merge tests eg: unit tests, auto-documentation updates, etc browser tests General support in TDD/BDD best practices	Antoine Musso Dan Duvall
Integration Environments Beta Cluster	Dan Duvall Mukunda Modell Tyler Cipriani
Deploying software Deployment tooling (scap) Backport_windows Reporting, triaging, and addressing production log errors	Dan Duvall Mukunda Modell Tyler Cipriani Ahmon Dancy
Developer productivity Local development environments	Jeena Huneidi Brennen Bearnes
Developer Tools Support Code review (Gerrit) Task/Project management (Phabricator)	Tyler Cipriani Mukunda Modell
MediaWiki Releases for third-parties aka: "the tarball"	Tyler Cipriani Mukunda Modell

Where we are:

We maintain a list of dashboards that provide insight into the services we maintain and how our team is functioning.